Have you ever felt oppressed by others? If you were, wouldn’t you want to try and make a change? Some civil activists use effective strategies that could potentially help you. Martin Luther King Jr., Cesar Chavez, and Malala Yousafzai all used ethos, pathos, and logos in their speeches “I Had a Dream,” “The Commonwealth Address,” and the “UN address” respectively. All 3 wished to achieve a good change for a people or for a bigger population, but through it all they had to face opposition. To push through, they made powerful speeches to assure their supporters that they were on the right side and that the authority was wrong. All 3 of these activists use ethos, pathos, and logos to question authority effectively by supporting their claims, connecting …show more content…
In Chavez’s speech, he began it by talking about the different atrocities he’s witnessed and how they have affected him personally. “That dream, that vision, grew from my own experience with racism, with hope, with the desire to be treated fairly…” (17). This line helps gives him credibility by telling the audience that he has experienced this before and he knows the issues. He’s also able to empathize with supporters and connect with them about the mistreatment they’ve had. It was appropriate for this argument because it helped him say that he knows what must be fixed firsthand. Likewise, Yousafzai speaks of her experience with the Taliban and how it helps her too. “Dear Friends, on the 9th of October 2012, the Taliban shot men [and] my friends too. They thought the bullets would silence us. But they failed” (18). Once again, Malala can be considered credible here as she knows what has changed and what we need to stop terrorism with having person experience with it. This helps support her claim by showing that education should be first. This is appropriate for the argument because it helps remind the audience that she personally understands why we should have education. Although establishing credibility is useful, appealing to people is still very important and the best way to do that is by tapping into their …show more content…
In Chavez’s speech, he begins to speak about the movement and its progress. “You cannot uneducated the person who learned to read” (99). This is an example of logos applied to the movement saying you can’t make people un-remember it. This supports his claim of the movement going forward and continuing to be alive. This is appropriate for assuring supporters that they won’t be mistreated anymore. Lastly, King tries to use logos too to make it clear that they were robbed of rights in the Declaration of Independence from 1776. “They were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men, white men and black men would be granted inalienable rights…” (4). This logically points out that the statement really didn’t give rights to We the People, it gave rights to We the People who are white. This supports his argument that African-Americans deserve rights too because it said so in writing. This is also appropriate because what King and his supporters are fighting for is equal
Huerta also uses logos to prevent her audience from being discouraged from the opposition that will refuse to accept change. She cites Martin Luther King Jr. as an example of someone who worked hard to discontinue segregation and yet still faced a lot of opposition from those in power. She implies that there will always be people who will try to prevent change from happening, and those people are an organized unit. She reasons that if people who want to achieve equality want to make a difference then they too should be a united
King uses logos to convince the clergymen that he is not going everywhere causing troubles and that the demonstrations were necessary for change in the south. In the letter king says “Just as the prophets of the eighth century B.C. left their villages and carried their "thus saith the Lord" far beyond the boundaries of their home towns, and just as the Apostle Paul left his village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to the far corners of the Greco-Roman world, so am I compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my own home town.” In this quote King is saying that he is going around extending the notion of freedom rather than going around causing harm. This quote was persuasive because the clergymen are religious men and connecting your activi...
(Martin Luther King 6) Because of those conditions, the blacks tried negotiation first and instead, received promises of false hope. A reader understands King had to use logos to show why direct action happened, as negotiation wasn’t promising. If they continued to try to negotiation, they would be left with false hope. Furthermore, a reader could view that logo as an appeal to one’s emotion, which makes his statement stronger.
When it comes to civil rights, there are two pieces of literature commonly discussed. One of these pieces is Henry David Thoreau’s persuasive lecture On the Duty of Civil Disobedience. In this work, Thoreau discusses how one must combat the government with disobedience of unjust laws and positive friction to create change. The second piece is the commonly known article Letter From a Birmingham Jail by Martin Luther King Jr. This letter covers the ways in which peaceful protest and standing up against injustice can lead to positive results. Both pieces conveyed a similar message of standing up for what is right. The strongest rhetorical methods which Thoreau uses are allusions, logos, ethos and rhetorical questions. However, King’s use of
In Cesar Chavez’s article, he uses many rhetorical devices to help give the reader a better understanding of how important nonviolence vs violence is. Chavez explains how Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi have endowed reasons of nonviolence worth following.
On May 26, 2015, Bernie Sanders announced his candidacy for president of the United States of America. During a time of political corruption, economic inequality, and social unrest, the American people hope to elect a president that will fix the country’s issues and improve upon the current state of the nation. Primary elections will occur within the coming months, and the general election will take place soon after, so candidates, Sanders included, have begun to campaign. By utilizing the rhetorical appeals of ethos, pathos, and logos; emphasizing his most important points through his word choice, voice, and body gestures; and establishing himself and American citizens as equal, Bernie Sanders explains in his speech his plans and hopes for America and strives to gain popularity and votes from
In order to change that, Malala started speaking at conventions and conferences. The article, ‘Malala Yousafzai: A Girl with
Both of the speeches, Martin Luther King's and Cesar Chavez', are powerful peices and communicate one vision: equality. King and Chavez have two very different styles of writing but the message from both is simmilar. for example both king and chavez discuss how their people are discriminated against because of their skin color, and how their people have neither the right to vote in the the south, nor the will to vote in the north , and in Chavez' situation, to have their vote counted. however similar their message's may be, their writing styles are different. Chavez talks about statistics, about why and how his people are treated. king held that the atrocitys commited against his people were self evident and as such did not need to be proved to anyone. kings message was meant to encompass the entire Uninted States while Chavez' was directed primarily at California.
Cesar Chavez was a Hispanic migrant worker who fought for the rights of other migrant farm workers. His strategy for fighting inequality was through nonviolent strikes, boycotts, and marches. In this interview of him by a Christian magazine, Chavez uses logical and religious appeals, and allusions to justify his usage of nonviolent resistance in order to gain civil rights.
Martin Luther King Jr. and Cesar Chavez were civil rights leaders who fought for the rights of people facing oppression in America in the mid 20th century. King attempted to end the segregation of African-Americans, and Chavez worked to improve conditions for migrant farmworkers, who often lived in terrible conditions earning below minimum wage. King was assassinated in 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was supporting the rights of black sanitary public works employees. Following King’s assassination, Chavez gave a speech honoring King, with the purpose of convincing his audience to put King’s views into practice by boycotting California grapes and fighting oppression.
First and foremost King calmly response to the statement from the clergymen that his non-violent direct action were “unwise and untimely”. King logically does so by giving the situation where the negro leaders tried many times to negotiate with the city fathers to remove racial sign, but the promises never to held true. Thus showing negotiation was no longer an option that direct action was needed to be done to solve the issue. By King giving this example it gives reason for his actions of the non-violent protest. King continues to use logos. He goes into the fact that what Hitler had done to Jews was legal in Germany and that what the freedom fighters did was...
Martin Luther King uses Logos, Pathos, and Ethos throughout his piece to provide his argument.
Alleged by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “I Have A Dream” speech on August 28, 1963 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. Dr. King said “This note was a promise that all men, yes, black men as well as white men, would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness”. Meaning there shall be equality between one another. Dr. King grew up around pastors in a Baptist Church, so when he gave his speeches he sounded like a preacher. He was a well-educated person who graduated from Boston University and received his Doctorate degree. Plus he was a strong worker for civil rights for members of his race. Being a strong worker and having knowledge of civil rights made him more of a confident and convincing speaker. Therefore, In Dr. King’s “I Have A Dream” speech, he pointed out to African Americans, that in the near future the African Americans would have equal rights and liberty like all the other Caucasians have. In this speech I have found Dr. King using logos, ethos, and pathos to get his attention across about equality and to make his speech sound more effective. Out of the three rhetorical appeals I have found that Dr. King used ethos the most predominately followed by the second most effective, pathos, and how King is a convincing speaker to his audience.
On August 28th, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. gave one of the most notable speeches in American history, at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King started off his famous “I Have a Dream” speech by stating the impact it would have on America’s civil rights movement: “I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation” (King 1). With knowledge of rhetoric and persuasion, King had a substantial impact on the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King Jr.’s use of ethos, pathos, and logos appeals enable King to persuade the audience to achieve equality.
Malala Yousafzai gives a speech at the United Nations. The terrorist attack made her a strong person, although she is young. She did not give a speech for revenge, however, she finds that talking about the importance of receiving education for all people at the time of the shooting. Further, Malala has a pure heart, so she can’t hate the Taliban. She has learned to be peaceful to all people from Muhammad, the prophet of mercy, Jesus Christ and Lord Buddha.